Vayne vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Vayne
based on 2,852 Vayne vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Gangplank
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Vayne vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some important Vayne vs. Gangplank counter stats that can help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Vayne typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gangplank. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Vayne or Gangplank?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually loses when playing against Gangplank, with a 48.8% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes a bad counter for Gangplank.
While Vayne does have a lower winrate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vayne into Gangplankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vayne vs Gangplank matchups, Gangplank is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter for Gangplank. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vayne against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vayne to counter Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often picks up a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Vayne versus Gangplank build include Wit's End, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Vayne incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Gangplank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Gangplank as Vayne, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Vayne vs Gangplank fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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